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Karlskirche (St. Charles's Church) is a baroque church located on the south side of Karlsplatz in Vienna, Austria. Widely considered the most outstanding baroque church in Vienna, as well as one of the city's greatest buildings, Karlskirche is dedicated to Saint Charles Borromeo, one of the great counter-reformers of the sixteenth century.
Located on the edge of the Innere Stadt, approximately 200 meters outside the Ringstraße, Karlskirche contains a dome in the form of an elongated ellipsoid. Since Karlsplatz was restored as an ensemble in the late 1980s, Karlskirche has garnered fame due to its dome and its two flanking columns of bas-reliefs, as well as its role as an architectural counterweight to the buildings of the Musikverein and of the Vienna University of Technology. The church is cared for by a religious order, the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star, and has long been the parish church as well as the seat of the Catholic student ministry of the Vienna University of Technology. Next to the Church was the Spitaler Gottesacker. Antonio Vivaldi was buried there.
The Karlskirche is a church in Zweibrücken built in 1715, destroyed in 1945, rebuilt in 1970. It is one of two landmarks of the town with the Alexanderskirche. It was court church from 1733 to 1858. Its congregation forms part of today's United Evangelical Church of the Palatinate.
The Karlskirche in Kassel (also Oberneustädter Kirche) is a Protestant church built by Paul du Ry in 1710 for the local Hugenot community.
The church was the location of a hundred-day sound installation by John Cage in 1987.
Karlskirche is a baroque church in Vienna, Austria.
Karlskirche may also refer to:
- Karlskirche (Kassel)
- Karlskirche (Zweibrücken)